I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.

I wanted to make an unashamed pop record. I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.